Chondrus

(kon’-dnts) \_xov6poc, a grain; cartilage]. I. Irish Mo . The substance of the algse C. crisp us and C. mammillosus. These yield, on boiling with water, a soluble colloid consisting mainly of mucilage. This is demulcent and somewhat nutrient. Dose indefinite. Unof. 2. A cartilage; the ensiform cartilage. Chopart’s Amputation. An amputation of the foot consisting of a disarticulation through the tarsal bones, leaving only the os calcis and the astragalus. 191